re: Will we find a way to use Fields in packages?

I hope Fields red shirts so we create separation and get an extra year.

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What's with people wanting to play Fields just for the sake of playing him?

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If Fields is as good as advertised we won't have him for four years so we would be saving him for nothing. Not playing him is a waste of talent and robs the team of a seasoned backup. If Fields is underutilized his dad might push him to baseball.

There is little chance that Fields won't play some.

Did Lamar Jackson or Deshawn Watson leave early?

Fields might not even start until he is a senior. How is he going to go pro in three years if he's playing backup all three years?

If he doesn't play as a Freshman who fricking cares if it gives us a shot to have him for another year at the end of his career?

Playing him as a Freshman because you are scared he will go pro early is just dumb. Unless he actually gives the team the best chance to win, there is no reason to play him.

He actually was quoted as saying he didn't mind the idea of redshirting.

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“I know some great quarterbacks redshirt their freshman year just to learn the system and get a close relationship with the receivers. So, it’s not really a big factor, playing my first year,” Fields told SEC Country. “The most important factor is how well I fit into the academics, how the family environment is there and just having a great relationship with the coaches.”

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Very humble kid, let's hope he stays that way.

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but trying to force him into the mix for garbage snaps just because he’s the new shiny thing doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

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You don't put him in because he's a new shiny toy, you put him in because he's one play away from taking over a team trying to get back to the championship and he needs more experience than running scout team with nobody watching. We would've played Fromm last year and we'll play Fields this year.

Lol at trying to make hay with “I don’t remember reading about Fromm ‘hitting a wall’ last year in spring practice.”

Good Gawd man- let it breathe! JF has been a college QB for a total of ONE MINUTE and is learning an entirely new system.

I say we let the season dictate what we do with Fields. IF Fromm is crushing opp defenses, then let him have some mop up duty, but try and keep the redshirt in tact. IF the season goes downhill (unlikely), then Fields may see even more time and a redshirt might not be an option.

The fact is without Sony and Chubb we don't know how this offense is going to perform. It will play out on the field...and luckily we are only 5 short months from watching it unfold lol.

I do not however, see a point to blowing a redshirt with Fields coming in against scrub teams once we are up 35-0. If we are gonna blow his redshirt, I want him thrown into the shite Vietnam style against LSU, AU, and all the rest.

Idk man. QBs tends to stay. Haven’t they been talking a lot lately about a lack of development at the next level?